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Giroud Nets Brace Off The Bench To Lift Gunners To The Summit [WATCH GOALS]

Olivier Giroud ’s first goals of the season handed Arsenal victory and Sunderland a share of an unwanted Premier League record. The...

Olivier Giroud’s first goals of the season handed Arsenal
victory and Sunderland a share of an unwanted Premier League record.

The France forward struck twice within five minutes of being
introduced as a 69th-minute substitute to kill off hopes of a Black Cats’
fightback after Jermain Defoe’s penalty had cancelled out Alexis Sanchez’s
first-half opener.

Sanchez now has 50 premier league goals for Arsenal in 106 games

Sanchez helped himself to a second – the last three goals
came inside a chaotic seven-minute period – to leave Sunderland with only two
points from their first 10 league games, matching Manchester City’s low in
1995-96.

The Gunners, who have now gone 14 games unbeaten in all
competitions since the opening day of the campaign, probably should have had
the game won by half-time, but beleaguered boss David Moyes was given hope by
Defoe’s spot-kick, only for the visitors to respond in brutal fashion.

Arsenal have now won 7 of their last 8 premier league games

The Black Cats showed commendable spirit in the early stages
as they set about knocking the Gunners out of their stride.

Sadly for them, they lacked both the defensive resilience
and the raw pace to compete when Arsene Wenger’s men flexed their muscles